Wednesday, January 25, 2017

My Friend Skip

Our
neighbor, Sarah, who lived on the back
side of us had a dog named Skip. Skip
was highly excitable and would fiercely bark rapidly at anything. He reminded me of the character Don Knotts
played. He was a Jack Russell.

A chain-link
fence separated us. Every time we faced
each other through the fence he would bark like he dared me to come over, just
try and he was saying he would rip me to shreds, or at least that is what it
appeared he was saying.

However,
when we visited and sat down on his mistresses screened in back porch he sat in
my lap and wanted me to pet him and I did.
We were the best of friends.

As Anna was
giving me a haircut on our deck this past weekend Skip slowly walked by on his
side of the fence. I thought he looked
very tired, which was unusual for an energy packed dog like that.

Yesterday we
learned he was put down about the same day I saw him. He had a tumor and was making him miserable.

Here are two
videos of Skip that I recorded of short moments of his life.